Model comparison

parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 vs whisper-large-v3

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 is the smaller download — 475,491,840 bytes against 997,303,008.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2whisper-large-v3
Parameters618M1.5B
Architectureparakeetwhisper
Layers32
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published818
Smallest quantization0.37 GiB0.49 GiB
Q4_K_M0.44 GiB0.93 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0apache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextparakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2whisper-large-v3Ratio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072